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  • Out of My Skin

    A Novel

    de John Haskell ...
    Los Angeles. A would-be movie reviewer, looking for romance, takes an assignment to write a magazine article about celebrity look-alikes. After getting to know a Steve Martin impersonator, the writer decides to undertake his own process of transformation and becomes not Steve Martin but a version of him—graceful, charming, at home in the world. Safe in the guise of "Steve," he begins to fall in ... Leer más

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  • The Complete Ballet

    A Fictional Essay in Five Acts

    de John Haskell ...
    A dark-hued, hybrid novel by a writer who “delivers our culture back to us, made entirely new” (A. M. Homes)In The Complete Ballet, John Haskell choreographs an intricate and irresistible pas de deux in which fiction and criticism come together to create a new kind of story. Fueled by the dramatic retelling of five romantic ballets, and interwoven with a contemporary story about a man whose ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Trying to Be

    A Collection

    de John Haskell ...
    With lyrical precision and aching intimacy, Trying to Be moves through history, memory, and the performance of ephemeral identity, as John Haskell assembles a quiet manifesto for how to think, how to live, and how to feel ourselves in our bodies.Trying to Be is a book about presence, absence, and the intricate art of inhabiting one’s own life. John Haskell—known for his genre-defying literary ... Leer más

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  • Tipping Points in International Law

    Commitment and Critique

    Edición de Jean d'Aspremont, John Haskell ...
    Series series ASIL Studies in International Legal Theory
    Addressing some of the most perilous, controversial issues in international law and governance, this volume brings together legal scholars from diverse geographic, personal and scholarly perspectives. They reflect on the pervasive feeling of crisis in the world today and share their views on the possibilities and limits of the international legal architecture and its expert communities in shaping ... Leer más

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  • American Purgatorio

    A Novel

    de John Haskell ...
    A man's search for his missing wife becomes an existential quest across America in the acclaimed author's "strange and compelling" debut novel ( Publishers Weekly )."I'm from Chicago originally. I went to New York, married a girl named Anne, and was in the middle of living happily ever after when something happened."So begins John Haskell's mesmerizing first novel, American Purgatorio, the story o ... Leer más

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  • I Am Not Jackson Pollock

    Stories

    de John Haskell ...
    A bewitching collection of short fiction-haunting and hypnotic meditations on art, movies, literature, and lifeA circus elephant named Topsy was executed at Coney Island in the year 1900 for killing a man. That's true. So is the life of Saartjie (Sar-key) Baartman, the Hottentot Venus, who was herself a circus act in the first half of the nineteenth century. What is myth is the Indian god Ganesha, ... Leer más

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  • New Approaches to International Law

    The European and the American Experiences

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This volume offers a unique reflection on the historic and contemporary influence of the New Approaches to International Law (NAIL) movement within the context of Europe and America. In particular, the contributions focus on the intellectual product of NAIL's founder, David Kennedy, in relation to three legal streams: human rights, legal history, and the law of war. On the one hand, the volume is ... Leer más

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  • Direct Democracy Or Representative Government? Dispelling The Populist Myth

    de John Haskell ...
    In Direct Democracy or Representative Government? John Haskell develops a devastating critique of direct democracy by exposing the central flaw in populist thinking. Contrary to the beliefs of populist advocates of direct democracy, the popular will cannot be interpreted from the results of the plebiscite. John Haskell presents a defense of representative institutions that brings to bear, in an ... Leer más

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  • Congress in Context

    de John Haskell ...
    The U.S. Congress is by the far the least popular (and most misunderstood) branch of the federal government. Congress in Context de-mystifies the institution, giving students a comprehensive and practical understanding of Congress and the legislative process. This book takes a different approach to the study of Congress than other texts. Usually Congress is treated in isolation from the rest of ... Leer más

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  • Small Change

    Money, Political Parties, and Campaign Finance Reform

    Reformers lament that, with every effort to regulate the sources of campaign funding, candidates creatively circumvent the new legislation. But in fact, political fundraisers don't need to look for loopholes because, as Raymond J. La Raja proves, legislators intentionally design regulations to gain advantage over their partisan rivals.La Raja traces the history of the U.S. campaign finance system ... Leer más

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  • The Receptionist

    An Education at The New Yorker

    de Janet Groth ...
    In 1957, when a young Midwestern woman landed a job at The New Yorker, she didn’t expect to stay long at the reception desk. But stay she did, and for twenty-one years she had the best seat in the house. In addition to taking messages, she ran interference for jealous wives checking on adulterous husbands, drank with famous writers at famous watering holes throughout bohemian Greenwich Village, ... Leer más

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